twine

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A twist; a convolution.

   “Not Typhon huge ending in ſnaky twine:”

2. (countable, uncountable)A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.

   “The orioles like to build the framework of twine, and it is marvelous how they will loop this around a twig almost as evenly knotted as if crocheted[…]”

3. (countable, uncountable)The act of twining or winding round.

   “The Colewort's rankness, but with amorous twine / Clasps the tall Elm”

4. (countable, uncountable)Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.

   “1965, Wilson Pickett, Don't Fight It (blues song), BMI Music. The way you jerk, the way you do the twine / You're too much, baby; I'd like to make you mine …”

verb

1. (transitive)To weave together.
2. (transitive)To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.

   “Let me twine Mine arms about that body […]”

   “She was twining her fingers together.”

3. (transitive)To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.

   ““Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine,” The victor cried, “the glorious prize is mine! […]””

4. (intransitive)To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.

   “Usually some old crone was squatted on the earth floor, weaving cedar fibre or tatters of old cloth into a mat, her claw-like fingers twining in and out, in and out, among the strands that were fastened to a crude frame of sticks.”

5. (intransitive)To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.

   “As rivers, though they bend and twine, Still to the sea their course incline:”

6. (intransitive)To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.

   “Many plants twine.”

7. (obsolete)To turn round; to revolve.

   “dancers twine midst cedar-fragrant glades”

8. (obsolete)To change the direction of.

   “For where he turned his sword, or twined his steed, He slew, or man and beast on earth down laid,”

9. (obsolete)To mingle; to mix.

   “As lumpes of sugar loose themselues, and twine Their subtile essence with the soul of wine.”

10. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of twin (“to separate”).

name

1. A surname.